Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University (MDSU) 2008 Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya) English (Elective) - Question Paper

ques. Paper English (Elective) B.A-II(2008)
ENGLISH (Elective) Paper-A

1. discuss in about 60 words every any 5 of the subsequent literary terms: (5×3=15)
(a) Historical novel (b) Detective fiction (c) Point of view (d) Satire (e) Lyric (f) Blank verse (g) Naturalism (h) Romanticism.
2. The title of ‘Prejudice’ is both worthwhile and improper. explain.(15)
Or
Darcy’s character in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ deftly handled by Jane Austen, with a deep psychological understanding. Comment. (15)

3. (a) Write a summary of : (10)
The Prisoner of Chillon
Or
The Highwayman.
(b) ans in about 100 words every any 2 of the subsequent questions: (5×2= 10)
(i) How does the poet compare the children with books and poems in ‘Children’?
(ii) Why does Byron express a desire to die in the poem ‘On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year’?
(iii) Thomes Hardy calls war as ‘quaint’ and ‘curious.’ Way ? (The Man He Killed)
(iv) Bring out the element of pathos in the poem ‘On a Dead Child’ written by Robert Bridges.

4. “Arms and the Man” is an antiromantic comedy. explain jn the light of this statement. Has GB Shaw succeeded in his satire on the romantic ideals of life?(20)
Or
Draw a character sketch of Catherine Patkoff. (20)

5. discuss with reference to the context: (10)
(a) Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth,
That I to manhood am arriv’d so near,
And inwards ripeness doth much less appear,
That a few timely-happy- spirit endu’th.

Or
Have ye leisure, comfort, calm,
Shelter food, love’s gentle balm ?
Or what is it ye buy so dear
With your pain and with your fear ?

(b) He did it like an operative tenor. A regular handsome fellow, with flashing eyes and lovely moustache, shouting his war cry and charging like Don Quixote at the wind mills we did laugh.I am no longer a soldier. Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward’s art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong and keeping out of harm’s way when you are weak. That is whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at the disadvantage; and never on any account, fight him on equal terms. (10)

Earning:   Approval pending.